Advertised through KSU Paralegal Program. Interview set up by an office manager. I arrived on time and the office manager was ready for the interview. Met in conference room with office manager first for initial interview. This was conducted in a professional way. No unexpected questions or questions that put you on the spot. It was explained to me that the attorney needed someone part time to assist him primarily in organizational matters (this was a high priority), wills and estate matters and other matters that might be involved with a particular client's needs. There had been someone filling this position, but they moved on to another area of the law. That had been about a year prior and no one apparently was filling the position after that person left.
When Mr. Burnett (office manager had left conference room) began the interview by stating that he did not like interviewing because he was not very good at it and always picked the wrong person for the job. He was distracted by personal text messaging (I know these were personal because he told me) and got up from the conference table to speak with someone in the outside hallway that he saw during the interview. He stated that he had looked at my LinkedIn profile ~ but he didn't remember what he saw because it had been a couple of days ago. He seemed unprepared for our meeting and was reading and then rereading my resume the whole time. I guess he had not read it either. I think perhaps the office manager had made all the decisions on who to interview and that he probably had no input into this at all. This seemed to be made more clear when he made a sideways remark about my years of experience - translate age related remark. Somewhere along the line the position was described as initially part time and temporary but it might become permanent but there was much cloudiness about the entire nature of the position. This made me wonder if Mr. Burnett actually had the budget for this position to begin with.
